I just thought this was really cool. Check out Limbo, especially the video teaser.
You don’t frequently see animation this nice on the big screen, let alone in a video game. The parallax and depth-of-field effects work wonderfully with the silhouette style — thus the reference to “film-noir”. I doubt there’s a maltese falcon in the game.
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It’s time to announce Battle for Wesnoth 1.2. This is a open-source game that i’ve been involved with for 2 or 3 years. It’s developed by volunteers and is completely free. It’s a turn-based strategy game, with simple rules, which, like chess, are quite difficult to master. I find it much more enjoyable than chess, not only because it has better graphics, but because to play successfully you must be able to respond to the unexpected. Attacks are not always successful.
Al Hirschfeld is one of the best recognized masters of caricature. His bold, flat, fluid lines, and extreme distortion create a distinctive style. The fact that his artistic career lasted nearth 80 years, and the fact that he’s drawn nearly every significant entertainment personality of that period, make it quite likely that you’ve seen his work.
Click on the picture to see a YouTube video of Hirschfeld drawing. I was quite facinated to see this. From this film it looks like he does all the work on a single sheet of paper, gradually building his sketch. I expected that the fluid lines would be laid down by quick, fluid strokes, but it seems he actually scratches them out quite carefully. Of course it’s possible his rendering style has become more deliberate with age.
I’ve got a new version of my sister’s site up and running — just in time for her show this Sunday. It now includes a lot more of her newer work, though i hope to get even more of her newer content up in the next few days. It still needs some text content, but people mostly want to see the pictures, so here it is.
My friends at Portland Studios have recently opened a store, currently featuring T Shirts with illustrations all (if i don’t mistake his style) by Chris Koelle. Congradulations. Portland Studios has gone from a crazy idea to a growing buisness in a few years.
Should i decide to put down the money, i’d go for this one: (i can empathize with the emotion displayed)
Click the banner to visit their store.
Tonight i put togther this invitation for my sister’s big art show. (with her over-my-shoulder input) I’m proud of it. The typeface is Avignon. Naturally the image is from her show. Click it to see the whole thing.
You can preview some of the stuff that will be in the show at her under-construction website. Continue reading ‘Annalisa’s Senior Art Exibition’
In order to force some creativity i did the following sketch with 3 basic colors, and one brush, and no initial idea. Also since didn’t feel like getting off the couch, i used my laptop’s trackpad instead of a mouse or wacom. There’s really no artisticly defensable reason for using a track pad. What is it? An alien landscape, i suppose.
Today i found something rare: more than a few of the illustrations of my hero T.S. Sullivant in one place. His work (at least for me) has been very hard to find. The extreme, but believable amplification of shape that marks his caricature in my opinion has never been beaten. (The previous sentence veers close to being twaddle, but that is always a danger when using words to describe visual art. Those two worlds don’t wholly overlap.) It takes an amazing amount of understanding to condense the human or animal form into such a compact package.
Sullivant’s illustrations were usually accompanied with captions that were supposed to be funny. Sometimes they are, but most of the verbal humor doesn’t transmit from 100 years ago. But the humor of the drawing has kept fresh. These illustrations are a delight to behold.
If found this via Filboid Studge, a nifty blog on historical illustration & animation, found via Drawn! A great blog with frequently updated links to and brief write-ups of all manner of illustrational things, found via Portland Studio’s new Blog.
Fluffy is this monstrous plant, i rescued from the dumpster. Over 3 feet tall standing in the pot. It’s thorn-edges leaves make really interesting patterns where they press into each other. New leaves pre-printed with these patterns unfurl from the central spike.
I sketched out Fluffy in Photoshop with my wacom thusly in a little over an hour. Since i just drew it, i don’t know if it’s any good, but since i made it public, i’m sure i’ll perceive it intensely next time i look at it.
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